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On 21 June 2007, executive producer Johan Mardell confirmed that the film ran over budget during production.See more »

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Anachronisms: Arn's trial by the archbishop is highly anachronistic in many ways. First, the church did not have any say in matters of marriage at the time the events are supposed to happen. Such were a completely private matter between the families involved until at least early renaissance. A daughter becoming pregnant outside of marriage would be the subject of her father's wrath rather than that of the church. Second, a bishop passing sentence like that would be a political matter which would not go without debate as to whether it was under the jurisdiction of the church at all. Being a noble, Arn would be the subject of judgment by peers. Third, the sentence in itself is absurd, as the knights templar were not in any way under the command of the church (nor was its members subject to mundane law). The organization was not aimed at harboring a condemned criminal, on the contrary, joining the order would require donations, arms, servants and the trust of its other members (and a solemn ceremony and vow). Fourth, the cloister where Cecilia is ushered to has a lot more in common with 20th century orphanages than with any medieval monastery. Sending a girl into a monastic order would be the decision of the family, not a sentence made by a bishop. Fifth, with most of the members of monastic orders being either people joining voluntarily out of a spiritual call or nobles sent there by their family for education, physical punishment would not be issued as depicted.See more »

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I must say this one surprised me, it was better than i thought it would
be. Joakim Nätterqvist did an awesome performance, i've met him several
times since he's my cousins ex so i know him personally and this just
what he needed, might this be a new start for a career for Jocke? who
knows.

To the movie now...

When title shows up and the beautiful music is being played in the
background i'm getting a good felling about it. But then the narrator
starts to talk and i have to say he didn't fit in any good, it was just
like watching Animal planet. The narrator didn't fit in at all, in fact
some people in the audience actually started to laugh, that's rare.

I've heard that some have said that this is the best Swedish movie ever
made. For me that's not true, i say that Evil is the best Swedish film.
But Arn is just what we in Sweden needed. For all the shitty movies
that have been made this was a lift. Perhaps now Sweden will be marked
on the map again in film making. Since Bergman died it has been rough
for us to get attention in movie making. So i hope Arn goes
internationally, due to the fact that they speak more English than
Swedish.

But when i've heard from Joakim Nätterqvist that they were gonna re-cut
the movie to suit a more younger audience i was a bit worried, i didn't
want it to be an Astrid Lindgren movie. But it didn't turn out that
way, some parts were actually pretty violent and contained some gore.
I've seen worse though but that's something i would like to warn all
the sensitive audience's for.

The music for the movie was perfect in my opinion, i don't know who
wrote it but my hat goes of for that person.

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